The Emerging Role of Support Workers in Perioperative & Critical Care Conference

24 November 2011, Manchester Conference Centre

All clinical areas are experiencing radical changes to the way care is delivered, none more so than perioperative and critical care areas. The emerging role of HCSW is driven not only by a modernising workforce but also by professional and economic factors. This multidisciplinary conference explores developments from around the UK and will appeal to nurses, carers, educators and managers with an interest in perioperative or critical care.

The conference chair is Professor Mark Radford, Divisional Director of Nursing, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust.

The programme includes:

• Getting started – the highs and lows of developing HCA’s via the foundation degree - Marilyn Norton Practice Development Specialist, Theatres, Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• Using a competency framework to structure the development of Healthcare Assistants in the operating department and critical care - Sue Cressey, Practice Educator – Support Workers and Desanka Babic Clinical Team Leader Operating Department, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

• Crossing inter-professional boundaries: Rhetoric to reality - Diane Jackson, Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Kingston and St. Georges University of London

• The Development of the Support Role in perioperative care - Jean Timmons Clinical Teacher, Theatres and Susanne Johnson, Learning Skills Sister, Education Centre, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioners in post-operative cardiothoracic care- Allaina Eden Critical Care and Cardiothoracic Surgery Team Leader
  Physiotherapist, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• Assistant Practitioners in critical care – feedback from practice - Mandy Driffield Programme Lead Cert HE Assistant Practitioner, University of Leeds Georgina Simmons, Lead Nurse, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

• Our experience of development of the HCA to Assistant Practitioner in perioperative care - Heather Robinson Course Leader, School of Health, University of Central Lancashire and Cath Hudson Work-based Education Facilitator,
  Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Assistant Practitioners in critical care – the next step - Lorna Johnson, Nurse Consultant, Critical Care, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

EXHIBITION & SPONSORSHIP

There opportunities for exhibitors and sponsors, for further details email:

mike.roberts@mkupdate.co.uk

How to book -

1. If your employer is paying, simply email your full contact details. We will also require a name and address for invoicing purposes - conference@mkupdate.co.uk
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